Onset may refer to:
- Onset (audio), the beginning of a musical note or sound
- Interonset interval, a term in music
- Syllable onset, a term in phonetics and phonology
- In medicine, the first appearance of the signs or symptoms of an illness or disease. Onset refers to the beginning of a musical Note or other sound in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak In Music the interonset interval or IOI is the Time between the beginnings or attack-points of successive events or Notes the interval between onsets In Phonetics and Phonology, a syllable onset is the part of a Syllable that precedes the Syllable nucleus.
- 'onset' a beginning or start. an assault or attack.
Onset may also refer to specific name:
- Onset, Massachusetts village in USA. Onset is a Census-designated place (CDP in the town of Wareham in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.
- Onset Industries, a film apparel company
Dictionary
onset
-noun
- A rushing or setting upon; an attack; an assault; a storming; especially, the assault of an army.
- (medicine) The initial phase of a disease or condition, in which symptoms first become apparent.
- (phonology) The initial portion of a syllable, preceding the syllable nucleus.
- (acoustics) The beginning of a musical note or other sound, in which the amplitude rises from zero to an initial peak.
- (obsolete) A setting about; a beginning.
- (obsolete) Anything set on, or added, as an ornament or as a useful appendage.
-verb
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